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[ic] cerevice inbox

[there is a pause that has been recorded, unintentionally, followed by the sound of someone clearing his throat]

Uh. Hullo. This is Arthur Kirkland. Please leave a message. Or text. Or whatever...

[beep]

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It's good to have friends around, isn't it? My mom always said that strangers are just friends you haven't met yet. I like to believe that to be true, even as the ones I know are disappearing...

In the end, we're all in the same boat here, so it doesn't surprise me that you had support. [ It does make him glad, though. Cerealia is full of kind people, at least in his experience. ]

[oh Jaune. that's pretty cute. lame, but also cute]

You had friends here who disappeared too, huh?

Pyrrha, among others.

[ ... ]

It's my first time being apart from her, ever since we met. This... is gonna take some getting used to.

[England's eyes widen] Pyrrha? That was... your partner, right?

Yeah. They... they had a name for her, back in my world.

The Invincible Girl.

Even though I've been with her long enough to know that isn't true, I still let myself believe that she's the kinda person who would outlast anyone, y'know? I didn't think there would be a day where I'm alive and I look to my side and not see her.

[ Not that he thinks Pyrrha is dead, but he never imagined she would just vanish either. He's really just beating himself up for taking her for granted. ]

[England listens silently as Jaune talks. and... wow. so, here he'd been, throwing a tantrum because someone he cared about disappeared. and he didn't even know it had happened to Jaune. hell, the same thing probably happened to lots of people here.

his shoulders droop, and he rubs his face, feeling like the biggest jerk ever]

I'm so sorry, Jaune.

I-It's fine... [ Clearly he misses her a lot, but Sousei already told him to man up, more or less. ]

Y'know, I was hoping that tour would give me some clues about why these things happen, and I was angry with how things ended on that day. I thought it was a waste of time and we got hurt for nothing, but... Peko thinks we might have uncovered something.

[ Which brings him to the second reason of this phonecall, besides checking up on Daddy Kirkland. ]

Can you... tell me what happened to you and Yang after we split up?

O-oh, of course.

As soon as we got in there, we noticed that early Cerealia was being hit with tremors. At first, I thought they were earthquakes. But then the diary said the tremors did not happen through natural causes.

HUH?! No way! So that means...!!!!

...

......

W-what does that mean, exactly?

[SIGH]

It means that the tremors were being caused artificially somehow. Unfortunately, Yang and I did not get to see how, or why.

You mean by like... a giant... monster catfish... or something?

[ At least his imagination is still intact. ]

A giant monster, or a machine, yes. Those tremors could have been made by magic, even. We just don't know. They started after building for Cerealia began, so my guess is that the natives of this planet were behind them.

Building this place must not have been easy, huh? Mr. Vincere continued his work despite everything in his way... and now he's dead, and we're stuck here none the wiser.

As if things weren't already confusing enough before...

Right. I don't feel like there were many questions answered. [and England had been wondering if the tour was a waste of time, but Jaune did not seem to think it was] ...What about you?

Well, I'm sure you heard most of the details from Peko... but did you know that this colony isn't as old as you might think? That jungle we were in... I think it was only a few months before we all arrived here. It's really weird...

Ah, no... I didn't hear that at all! [a timeline! they have a timeline!]

Yeah! That September door we went through, it only took us to the recent one. I don't remember much of the diary entry, but the intern seemed really confused about what Mr. Vincere was trying to do...